These cute snowman cookies are an even easier version of our popular Melted Snowmen Cookies. Kids will love decorating these Pillsbury™ sugar cookies with icing and candies to look like snowmen melting on a warm winter day.
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Super-Easy Melted Snowman Cookies
- Prep Time 40 min
- Total 2 hr 10 min
- Ingredients 8
- Servings 24
Ingredients
- 1 package (16 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Ready to Bake!™ Sugar Cookie Dough (24 Count)
- 12 multicolored large gumdrops
- 1 cup white cookie icing (from two 7-oz pouches)
- 1 tablespoon white sparkling decorating sugar
- 6 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups miniatures, unwrapped and cut in half
- 48 brown M&Ms® Minis® milk chocolate candies
- 3 small orange gumdrops, cut into 24 small triangular pieces
- Pretzel sticks (broken into small pieces), if desired
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Place cookies 2 inches apart on ungreased large cookie sheets.
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Step2Bake 10 to 14 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool on cookie sheets 2 minutes; remove to cooling rack to cool completely.
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Step3To make gumdrop snowman hats: With rolling pin or hands, roll large gumdrops 1/4 inch thick. Cut thin strip from bottom; press sticky cut side onto bottom of hat to make brim; set aside.
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Step4Using photo as a guide, pipe about 2 teaspoons cookie icing onto cookie to look like a “pool” of melted snow; sprinkle with about 1/8 teaspoon decorating sugar. Immediately add peanut butter cup half (cut-side down) or gumdrop hat, chocolate candy eyes, gumdrop nose and pretzel arms. Let stand until set, about 1 hour.
Nutrition
160 Calories
5g Total Fat
1g Protein
27g Total Carbohydrate
21g Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 160
- Calories from Fat
- 45
- Total Fat
- 5g
- 8%
- Saturated Fat
- 2g
- 9%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 65mg
- 3%
- Potassium
- 15mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 27g
- 9%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 21g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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